Aw: Re: Python 3 how to convert a list of bytes objects to a list of strings?

[Richard Damon]

On 8/28/20 7:50 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>>> No interpreation requires, since parsing failed. Then you can start
>>> dealing with these exceptions. _Do not_ write unparsable messages into
>>> an mbox!
>>>
>> Maybe I shouldn't but Python 2 has been managing to do so for several
>> years without any issues.
> I am inclined to congratulate you on that sheer amount of luck. I don't
> believe there were no issues because everything worked just right under
> py2 but rather because py2 cared less than py3 does now.
>
>> Are we saying that Python 3 really can't be made to handle things
>> 'tolerantly' like Python 2 used to?
> It sure should be possible but it will require *explicit* en/decode()s in
> more places than before because AFAICT there's less impliciteness as to
> which encoding to apply (regardless of whether it applies).
>
> Karsten
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Richard Damon